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Guidant Corporation (C): Don't Get a Heart Attack! Difficult Decisions in a Pacemaker Firm
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-171-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeGuidant Corporation is an high tech star up. After a couple of years of activities, it launches new high tech products such as pacemakers, implantable defibrillators, etc. After some time Guidant's top management discovers that one of its products, implanted in 24.000 patients, has a serious defect. After the death of a patient due to the fault of a Guidant's product, the firm enter into fire. Case C provides the epilogue of the long crisis.Starting at €5.74
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Guidant Corporation (A): Don't Get a Heart Attack! Difficult Decisions in a Pacemaker Firm
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-169-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeGuidant Corporation is a high tech start up. After a couple of years of activities, it launches new high tech products such as pacemakers, implantable defibrillators, etc. After some time Guidant's top management discovers that one of its products, implanted in 24.000 patients, has a serious defect. Manager has to choose whether to disclose the information only to the FDA as requested by the law, or also to inform the patients and doctors.Starting at €8.20
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There is a Price for Human Life : Some considerations in the civil engineering sector
Vaccaro, Antonino; Ruiz, José MaríaTechnical Note BEN-133-EInnovation and ChangeIs there is a price for human life? While a great number of people would agree that human life has no monetary value, a critical examination of the models adopted by policy makers and professionals in engineering, particularly in some areas of the civil engineering sector, shows that decision makers are sometimes forced to put a price human on life during important decision-making processes. Several decades ago, the use of utilitarian approaches,...Starting at €8.20
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Guidant Corporation (B): "¡No sufras un ataque al corazón!": decisiones difíciles en una empresa líder en la fabricación de marcapasos
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-170Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeStarting at €5.74
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Guidant Corporation: Disclosure or non Disclosure Dilemmas in the Pacemaker Industry
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-168-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeGuidant Corporation is a high-tech startup producing medical devices such as pacemakers, defibrillators and coronary stent systems. Toward the middle of 2002, Guidant discovers that some of its pacemakers and defibrillators, which had been sold and implanted in thousands of patients, had a technical problem and could fail to deliver an electric shock when one was needed. The company faces the dilemma of whether or not to disclose the information ...Starting at €8.20
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Guidant Corporation: ¿Divulgar o no divulgar Dilemas en el sector de los marcapasos
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-168Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeGuidant Corporation es una empresa de reciente creación en el campo de la alta tecnología que se dedica a la fabricación de dispositivos médicos como marcapasos, desfibriladores y sistemas de endoprótesis coronarias. Hacia mediados de 2002, Guidant descubre que algunos de sus marcapasos y desfibriladores que ya se han vendido e implantado en pacientes presentaban fallos y podrían no enviar la descarga eléctrica cuando fuera necesario. La compañía...Starting at €8.20
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¿Tiene un precio la vida humana : Algunas consideraciones sobre el sector de la ingenería civil
Vaccaro, Antonino; Ruiz, José MaríaTechnical Note BEN-133Innovation and Change¿Tiene un precio la vida humana? Aunque la mayoría de la gente está de acuerdo en que la vida humana no debe tener un valor monetario, un examen crítico de los modelos adoptados por los legisladores (policy makers) y los profesionales en el campo de la ingeniería, y concretamente en algunas áreas del sector de la ingeniería civil, muestran cómo, a veces, éstos se ven obligados a poner un precio a la vida humana en los procesos de toma de decision...Starting at €8.20
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Guidant Corporation (C): "¡No sufras un ataque al corazón!": decisiones difíciles en una empresa líder en la fabricación de marcapasos
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-171Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeGuidant Corporation es una startup de alta tecnología que, tras un par de años de actividad, lanza productos nuevos, como marcapasos, desfibriladores implantables, etc. Después de un tiempo, la dirección de Guidant descubre que uno de sus productos, implantado en 24.000 pacientes, presenta graves defectos. Tras la muerte de un paciente por el fallo de un producto Guidant, la empresa se encuentra en una situación peligrosa, por lo que el caso C of...Starting at €5.74
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Guidant Corporation - Teaching Note: Disclosure or non Disclosure. Dilemmas in the Pacemaker Industry
Vaccaro, AntoninoTeaching Note BET-1-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeThis document provides indications to conduct the discussion of the case study "Guidant Corporation".Starting at €0.00
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Guidant Corporation (A, B and C) - Teaching Note: Don't Get a Heart Attack! Dificult Decisions in a Pacemaker Firm
Vaccaro, AntoninoTeaching Note BET-2-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeTeaching Note for Guidant Corporatiion (A), (B), (C): Don't Get a Heart Attack! Difficult Decisions in a Pacemaker Firm.Starting at €0.00